4. Regulatory problem
Before Governments act to regulate any sector of business, it is necessary to describe what the regulatory needs are – ‘the regulatory problem’.
4.1 Growing global burden of food-borne illness
Australia and most other countries in the world, as well as the World Health Organization (WHO)10, recognise the increasing burden of food-borne illness worldwide. The growing burden of food-borne illness may be attributed largely to a rapidly changing global environment. The growth in global food trade – where food grown in one country can now be transported and consumed halfway across the world, changing patterns of food production and distribution, and evolving consumer preferences for food are some of the elements of the changing environment and it is likely that these will continue in the future. These changes create an environment that favours the emergence and re-emergence of new pathogens and contaminants in food, and the resulting food-borne illness in our population.
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